In recent days, wil medical technology ltd., under the medical umbrella of yunnan taneda, has just entered into a contract with a public hospital in guizhou for the hosting and repair of the hospital's entire hospital, which means that the repair and maintenance of the medical equipment in this public hospital is under the overall responsibility of yunnan。
In recent years, more and more hospitals have been hosting equipment to third-party companies, from the “high threshold of maintenance” to the present “saving mind hosting”, which has gone a long way, with many “crackings”. The emergence of third-party maintenance companies has responded to market demand and, in some cases, has resulted in a relative reduction in the cost of hospital maintenance as well as in improved safety and accurate information on hospital medical equipment。
Lower the threshold for medical equipment, break the traditional barriers
The maintenance of medical equipment has been the focus and difficulty of medical management. According to the national commission for health and welfare, by the end of march 2021 there were 36,000 hospitals nationwide. Modern medical equipment in hospitals accounts for more than 50 per cent of the total fixed assets, and in the country's tri-a hospitals, the assets of medical equipment averaged 300 to 800 million yuan, while in some developed regions the total value of medical equipment was over 2 billion yuan。
“medical equipment accounts for a significant proportion of hospital operations and plays an increasingly important role in the quality and safety of medical care.” according to zhang gui ding, chairman of the medical board and executive director of the yunnan medical devices industry association, many hospitals are faced with insufficient equipment for the management of their equipment, a lack of skilled personnel, a lack of technical upgrading, high technical barriers to maintenance and the lack of open access to spare parts, making it difficult to carry out maintenance work. The journalists learned that, with the introduction of decree no. 18 on the quality control of the use of medical equipment, which was implemented by the general directorate of state market supervision on 1 february 2016, the legal position of third-party post-sale service companies in assuming the maintenance and repair of hospital equipment had been clarified, and that the former manufacturer's monopoly had been broken from the top of the industrial hierarchy and that third-party protection companies had begun to emerge。
According to zhang guiying, hospitals are in the first place for the maintenance of medical equipment, with the third-party medical equipment maintenance company entering the medical equipment maintenance industry, and to some extent removing post-sale service conflicts caused by the technology asymmetric monopolization, which are superior in terms of technology, price, time, flexibility, etc., have been recognized by a growing number of institutions and have gradually gained a place in the medical equipment maintenance industry through market competition。
Medical equipment
Equipment to protect data information, upgrade management
According to the survey data of the chinese medical equipment association, approximately 17 per cent of medical accidents were due to poor operational use of medical equipment, inadequate maintenance and quality problems。
As the industry evolves, third-party protection companies are gradually improving their capacity, and the business model for the protection industry will be gradually moving towards single-station equipment and towards overall hospital protection. The hospital is also more likely to place its entire equipment in a serviceable third party。
In the case of yunnan shida, medical care has been developed for 11 years with the launch of the medical repository medical equipment maintenance management platform, which has made medical ingenuity management processes easier, more efficient and better managed through smart upgrades such as “equipment + internet + visualization + data + terminal”。
At present, through this computerized management system, the operational status, efficiency of use, frequency of maintenance and the time of maintenance of all equipment at the hospital can be recorded, and hospital managers can keep track of the operation of thousands of equipment at all times by clicking on apps。
According to zhang gui ding, the system is currently in use at more than 20 level ii hospitals throughout the country. This information-based system will increase the start-up rate of hospital equipment, extend its useful life and improve hospital management. For patients, the good and efficient operation of medical equipment allows for better clinical examination results。
Medical equipment
Yunnan's third-party medical equipment has a huge market
“the hospital has a particularly obvious `two-eighth law': a warranty contract between the hospital and the manufacturer may cover less than 20 per cent of the equipment, leaving 80 per cent of the remaining equipment largely at liberty and lacking system maintenance, repair and testing. This could well become a financial covert bomb in hospitals. When repairing machines without warranty contracts, substantial temporary costs are incurred, which in turn may cause the hospitals to lose financial control.” an engineer with years of professional experience after the sale of medical equipment told journalists。
“a number of hospitals neglect the maintenance and repair of medical devices, which are left unrepaired for long periods of time, which increases the risk of patient visits, and it is our social responsibility to keep every medical device in good working condition.” director zhang gui-ling, chairman of the gita group, told journalists that outsourcing of services had been characterized as a priority area for national development, and that medical devices, with the power of the internet + big data, would eventually break down traditional barriers to equipment maintenance。
Journalists have learned that the hospital in yunnan currently has very few third-party protection companies to host the entire facility, with a very large market。
“with the encouragement of national policies, the market is becoming more and more acceptable, and some excellent third-party maintenance companies use the internet+. The provision of some facilities for the maintenance of medical equipment and the establishment of the app platform to provide value-added services to users will certainly be acceptable to more hospitals.” zhang cui-ping is very fond of yunnan's medical equipment to protect the market, and his team has been working on upgrading services and setting standards for third-party protection industries. (reporter, yang chun-ping, correspondent, chai-jing)
